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The cables reveal how former US ambassador to Harare Christopher Dell hoped to accomplish his evil agenda in 2007, describing President Mugabe in the process as a “a brilliant tactician”. In a report to White House sent July 13 2007, Dell also described MDCT leader Morgan Tsvangirai as a “flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment in selecting those around him,” although he was “a brave man, committed and by and large a democrat.”

He also took a tribally divisive swipe describing the majority Zimbabweans a “famously passive Shona people.”
Tsvangirai was also described as possibly an albatross around the necks of Zimbabweans once in power.

“In short, he (Tsvangirai) is a kind of Lech Walesa character:  Zimbabwe needs him, but should not rely on his executive abilities to lead the country’s recovery,” reads part of the report. He was also against the formation of an inclusive government saying, “this solution is more likely to prolong than resolve the crisis and we must guard against letting Pretoria dictate an outcome which perpetuates the status quo at the expense of real change and reform,” he said. – Staff writer